[Spice-devel] Local mouse cursor with Windows client

[Ralf]

Hi all,

I never had a reaction on my email below. I just installed Fedora Server 21 and ran an Android VM on it and connected with a Spice client from a Windows machine. But te result is the same. As soon as the mouse enters the Remote Vieuwe window, the local mouse pointer is gone.

Now usually you do want the local mouse pointer to disapear because the remote mouse pointer will be shown. But the Android VM has no local mouse pointer because it is a touch based OS.

-- 
Ralf

December 18 2014 9:04 PM, "Ralf" <ralf at rasu.nl> wrote: 
> Hi Marc-André,
> 
> Thank you for taking the time to look at this!
> 
> "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau at gmail.com> schreef op 18 december 2014 02:00:
> 
>> Hi
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Ralf <ralf at rasu.nl> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm using virt-viewer 1.0256 on Windows to connect to a Debian 7.7 Server
>>> running qemu-kvm-1.1.2+dfsg-6+deb7u6 and libspice-server1-0.11.0-1+deb7u1
>>> which in turn runs several Virtual Machines.
>> 
>> Ok! Don't be surprised that your combination has never been used
>> before, especially with Android VM! :)
>> I suppose you got virt-viewer from the 1.0 msi in
>> https://fedorahosted.org/released/virt-viewer.
> 
> I got it via www.spice-space.org which redirects to virt-manager.org for the Windows binaries. Here
> is the exact URL:
> http://virt-manager.org/download/sources/virt-viewer/virt-viewer-x86-1.0.msi
> But the URL on fedorahosted looks "visited" in my browser, so I think it is the exact same file.
> 
>>> This all works well for most VM's, but when I run an Android VM I can't see
>>> my mouse when it enters the virt-viewer Window. Since Android does not show
>>> a mouse pointer because it is touch based, I need to guess my location and
>>> hope for the best :)
>> 
>> I just installed android x86 4.4r1 on f21 with virt-manager, and it
>> does draw the pointer. How did you install the android VM?
> 
> I created an XML domain file and imported it via "virsh define". When I run vish dumpxml on the
> domain when running, this is what I get:
> 
> <domain type='kvm' id='42'>
> <name>android-4.4-test-1</name>
> <uuid>ede29324-d2f2-d490-34d4-169b8bdcf085</uuid>
> <memory unit='KiB'>2136064</memory>
> <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2136064</currentMemory>
> <vcpu placement='static'>2</vcpu>
> <os>
> <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-1.1'>hvm</type>
> <boot dev='hd'/>
> </os>
> <features>
> <acpi/>
> <apic/>
> </features>
> <cpu mode='host-passthrough'>
> </cpu>
> <clock offset='utc'/>
> <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
> <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
> <on_crash>restart</on_crash>
> <devices>
> <emulator>/usr/bin/kvm</emulator>
> <disk type='file' device='disk'>
> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='unsafe'/>
> <source file='/srv/kvm/disks/non-prod/android-4.4-test-1.qcow2'/>
> <target dev='hda' bus='ide'/>
> <alias name='ide0-0-0'/>
> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='0' target='0' unit='0'/>
> </disk>
> <disk type='file' device='cdrom'>
> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/>
> <source file='/srv/kvm/isos/android-x86-4.4-r1.iso'/>
> <target dev='hdc' bus='ide'/>
> <readonly/>
> <alias name='ide0-1-0'/>
> <address type='drive' controller='0' bus='1' target='0' unit='0'/>
> </disk>
> <controller type='usb' index='0'>
> <alias name='usb0'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
> </controller>
> <controller type='ide' index='0'>
> <alias name='ide0'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x1'/>
> </controller>
> <interface type='bridge'>
> <mac address='de:ad:be:##:##:##'/>
> <source bridge='br3'/>
> <target dev='vnet1'/>
> <alias name='net0'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
> </interface>
> <input type='tablet' bus='usb'>
> <alias name='input0'/>
> </input>
> <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'/>
> <graphics type='spice' port='5900' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0' keymap='en-us'>
> <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
> </graphics>
> <video>
> <model type='qxl' vram='65536' heads='1'/>
> <alias name='video0'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
> </video>
> <memballoon model='virtio'>
> <alias name='balloon0'/>
> <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
> </memballoon>
> </devices>
> <seclabel type='none'/>
> </domain>
> 
> This is my ps output of this domain:
> 
> /usr/bin/kvm -S -M pc-1.1 -cpu host -enable-kvm -m 2086 -smp 2,sockets=2,cores=1,threads=1 -name
> android-4.4-test-1 -uuid ede29324-d2f2-d490-34d4-169b8bdcf085 -no-user-config -nodefaults -chardev
> socket,id=charmonitor,path=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/android-4.4-test-1.monitor,server,nowait -mon
> chardev=charmonitor,id=monitor,mode=control -rtc base=utc -no-shutdown -device
> piix3-usb-uhci,id=usb,bus=pci.0,addr=0x1.0x2 -drive
> file=/srv/kvm/disks/non-prod/android-4.4-test-1.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-ide0-0-0,format=qcow2,cache=u
> safe -device ide-hd,bus=ide.0,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-0-0,id=ide0-0-0,bootindex=1 -drive
> file=/srv/kvm/isos/android-x86-4.4-r1.iso,if=none,id=drive-ide0-1-0,readonly=on,format=raw -device
> ide-cd,bus=ide.1,unit=0,drive=drive-ide0-1-0,id=ide0-1-0 -netdev tap,fd=20,id=hostnet0 -device
> rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=de:ad:be:##:##:##,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -device
> usb-tablet,id=input0 -spice port=5900,addr=0.0.0.0,disable-ticketing -k en-us -vga qxl -global
> qxl-vga.vram_size=67108864 -device virtio-balloon-pci,id=balloon0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4
> 
>>> When I read Spice for Newbies chapter 3.6 "Mouse Modes" it looks like I
>>> should use "Client mouse" so I have set the libvirt domain option <mouse
>>> mode='client'/>, but this makes no difference to mode server...
>> 
>> You shouldn't need to set any mouse mode manually.
>> 
>>> I've looked everywhere, but I can't find an option to have virt-viewer just
>>> show my local (Windows) mouse pointer. Or just a little dot as VNC could do
>>> would be nice.
>> 
>> Have you tried with a more recent version of client on a fedora client?
> 
> I can't find a more recent version of the official Windows client.
> 
> I did try a home-brew version of Fabiano Fidêncio from here:
> http://blog.fidencio.org/2014/11/virt-viewer-using-gtk3-for-windows.html but this also hides my
> Windows mouse pointer as soon as I enter the virt-viewer window.
> 
> I went through hell and back to compile the latest remote-viewer-1.0 from source on a Debian 7.7
> machine, but when the mouse enters the remote-viewer window, the mouse leaves the building... :(
> 
>>> Am I running into a Bug (should <mouse mode='client'/> do what I want?) or
>>> am I doing somethig wrong?
>> 
>> It's not clear yet :)
>> 
>> thanks a lot for trying Spice with Android, very few people try! I
>> think there is a nice future in the area once we start using
>> accelerate rendering with virgl! (android x86 uses Mesa iirc, it will
>> need some gl extension though)
> 
> You are welcome. More accelerated stuff sounds good to me.
> 
> --
> Ralf